What would offend a Celt?

**Hax** · 07-15-2008, 10:40

i aint scottish but i was deeply offended by that >_>

Yeah, then seriously, don't be offended.

I play the bagpipes myself. Or should I say the horrible sound of a goat in pain.

**QuintusSertorius** · 07-15-2008, 11:47

Questioning his personal honour and the value of his word? Didn't Gauls take oaths very seriously?

Insulting the hospitality of his home.

**Olimpian** · 07-15-2008, 16:03

Showing him how his people are portrayed in RTW vanilla?

**Havok.** · 07-15-2008, 16:11

Olimpian said it all

**Chirurgeon** · 07-15-2008, 16:29

Dress him up in a Toga and send him to Academy?

**QuintusSertorius** · 07-15-2008, 16:34

Originally Posted by Chirurgeon

Dress him up in a Toga and send him to Academy?

He didn't ask how you offend traditional Roman sensibilities.

**Theodotos I** · 07-15-2008, 17:06

To be more specific. If I, as a ancient Gallic king, sent a messenger to another king, what would he do if he wanted to insult me and my messenger. There are several ancient accounts in the middle east of messengers being sent back with their beards shaved off. What's the Gallic equivalent?
And I'll have to say the replies I've gotten so far are very, shall we say, interesting. . .

**Hax** · 07-15-2008, 19:15

Me too
though i'm a player of Portuguese bagpipes, called Transmontana, not sure if you guys know it...

Ah, gaita de fole Transmontana?

I play the Gaita Galega and Cornemuse du Centre myself.

**Havok.** · 07-15-2008, 23:59

Originally Posted by Hax

Ah, gaita de fole Transmontana?

I play the Gaita Galega and Cornemuse du Centre myself.

Aye, besides that one, Transmontana, i'm gathering money for a Scottish Smallpipe too
just beatiful

**Havok.** · 07-15-2008, 16:02

Originally Posted by Hax

Yeah, then seriously, don't be offended.

I play the bagpipes myself. Or should I say the horrible sound of a goat in pain.

Me too
though i'm a player of Portuguese bagpipes, called Transmontana, not sure if you guys know it...

**Maeran** · 07-15-2008, 21:25

Originally Posted by Havok.

Me too
though i'm a player of Portuguese bagpipes, called Transmontana, not sure if you guys know it...

No, I didn't know you played them. .

Appo's idea just takes too long. You'd be tired.

The tradition of hospitality is a wide ranging one (it would work with Greeks too probably). Presumably you're looking for a reason for war here.

Perhaps you could throw meat to the dogs but not give any to the emissary. Or present him with a humiliating gift (like the king of France sending Henry V tennis balls in Shakespeare's play, but not as lame).

**Cadwalader** · 07-15-2008, 23:27

Send a "gift", like a small sack of money or something: "obviously you need this lol".

I think that would piss a majesty off. I got the inspiration from Snorri's Heimskringla, where the English king sends Norway's king a sword. This is seen as something you do to your servants. The offended king (Harald I, the first king of all Norway) sent the English king Athelstan one of his sons in return. This was seen as even more humiliating. Athelstan kept the boy, which later became Hàkon the good of Norway!